Chapter Seventy-Four: Black and White Photographs
The Li family and his wife fell asleep, and Qin Fan could still open one eye and close one eye.
I felt that it was enough to give the bed quilt without the two of them lying on the floor and getting cold.
But this kind of thinking is put on Yao Xin, and it is not valid at all.
At the moment, Qin Fan didn't think about anything, and directly hugged Yao Xin in his arms.
Under the soft light of the dim light bulb, Yao Xin slept sweetly, she was busy today, like a spinning top, and she didn't stop for a moment at all.
It was eleven o'clock now, and she had already slept in front of her.
Qin Fan walked to the second floor with Yao Xin in his arms, this house was demolished and rebuilt by his father on the original ancestral homestead, and now no one is more familiar with the entire structure than him.
The second floor is not too big, but it is still divided into two bedrooms and a study.
He put Yao Xin in the small room next to the master bedroom, where he had slept when he had lived here this time.
On the mottled white wall, there is a poster that Qin Fan once left when he was a child, which was a popular photo of the actors of martial arts films at that time.
He specially begged Qin Shan to take him to the copy shop in the city to print out these posters.
Over the years, most of the colors have been lost, and the movie stars on the posters have gradually withdrawn from the screen and are no longer active in the public eye.
The windows in the room had not been opened for many days to ventilate, Qin Fan pushed open the window, and what he smelled between his snorts was the smell of dirt after the rainstorm.
The wild mosquitoes and moths outside the house swooped down on the light, and after a while, there was a buzzing sound everywhere, and the shadows left behind when they flew by.
Yao Xin lay on the bed, sleeping soundly, and the fine fluff on her face faded the lines of her face under the action of light.
Her whole person looked peaceful and quiet, and Qin Fan was a little distracted just by looking at it so blankly.
Seeing Yao Xin, who was sleeping, let out a snort after being bitten by a mosquito, Qin Fan immediately came back to his senses and coughed in a low voice.
He was afraid that Yao Xin would see his stunned appearance, so he quickly got up and opened the wardrobe door, wanting to find out if the mosquito nets at home were still there.
Pushing open the wardrobe door, what he smelled was still the smell of mothballs, which was full of cotton wool and quilt covers, and the clothes he left behind back then were probably given away by the Li family and his wife.
After looking for it, Qin Fan didn't see a mosquito net.
I didn't go to the master bedroom to look, but turned around and walked into the study next to it.
It is said that the study room has lifted this place, but it is a room that is not much bigger than his bedroom, and the reason why no one lives in it is entirely because this place has excellent ventilation and lighting, and Qin Shan specially set it aside for him to read.
It's a pity that Qin Fan didn't realize his father's good intentions at all, and he was greedy for play.
All day in the village, I either went down to the river to fish, or went up to the tree to dig out birds' eggs, and had a lot of fun.
There were not many books in the room, but there was a big pile of groceries, Qin Fan walked in, and the memories of the past immediately came to his face?
In addition to the miscellaneous picture books and used books he read when he was a child, there were also a lot of gadgets made of wood.
He crouched down and touched a tiger made of wood, which was not very delicate, but the whole body was finely sandpapered.
This is Qin Shan in order to celebrate his birthday, asked Yao Qing to do it for him, the relationship between the two of them is very good, they are brothers with different surnames.
At that time, Yao Qing was a strong man, who went up to the mountains all day long to hunt and dig herbs.
And his father, Qin Shan, became a barefoot doctor in ten miles and eight villages.
Qin Fan remembered that his father had talked about it before, why the relationship between the two of them was like this.
said that the two of them were born on the same day, the same month, and the same year, and they were very close to each other, so they learned from the characters in those martial arts novels and worshipped the handle.
Although the two did not have the same ambition as they originally set, they made contributions to the country or became scholars.
But in Sanshi Village, one person hunts and the other works as a doctor, which has a bit of the original intention.
Qin Fan stuffed the wooden tiger into his coat pocket and took out the mosquito net from the wooden box next to him.
Years have passed, and the mosquito net has been bitten by small insects everywhere, and even if it is taken out, it is useless, not to mention the strange smell on it.
He threw the thing back in its place, and although the mosquito net was not heavy, it was quite wide, and suddenly he didn't know what it had caught, and it fell to the ground with a clattering sound.
Qin Fan looked down and saw that it was a small iron box full of rust.
The lid could no longer be covered, and it was swept to the ground by the mosquito net, and immediately fell in half.
The outside of the tin box is printed with a cartoon pattern, and I vaguely remember that it was a candy box that his father bought from the county town.
At that time, most of the things were packed in tin boxes, which looked high-end and moisture-proof.
Even after the candy is eaten, I am reluctant to throw it away, leaving it at home as an object to carry things.
Looking at the blurred cartoon pattern on it, he couldn't remember how he had ever eaten this candy.
I don't know what is contained here, it has been in the study for so long, Qin Fan lowered his head and picked it up after thinking about it.
Reaching out and touching the tin box, it was mottled and full of rust, and it had reached the point of being a fool.
To Qin Fan's surprise, there were a few photos inside.
There are photos of him going to the county town to take family photos with his parents when he was a child, and there are also separate photos left on his birthday.
The self in the photo is no more than five or six years old, holding a bouquet of fake flowers in his hand, a red mole on his eyebrows, and standing in front of a rough background cloth with a shy smile on his face.
The thin photo made Qin Fan's eyes red, and this discovery made him surprised and delighted.
He hurriedly turned the tin box upside down, and a few photos inside fell into the palm of his hand.
At that time, the family conditions were not good, and things like taking photos were simply a luxury for the countrymen.
But despite this, Qin Shan still retains some of the imprints of his life from childhood to adulthood.
After many years, there have been no plastic photos this time, and his face is already a little gray, with spots, but it does not affect Qin Fan's emotion when he sees it.
It wasn't until he saw the last photo that the smile on his face came to an abrupt end.
Spread out in the palm of his hand is a black-and-white photograph, which has neither plastic nor any color, and even many spots.
You can only roughly tell who there is by the size of the person taking the photo.
In the photograph are three men standing side by side, who look no more than twenty years old at the time, and they are in high spirits.
Qin Fan could see that there was his father, Qin Shan, the honest and honest barefoot doctor.
It can also be seen that standing on his left is Yao Qing, who is tall and smiling.
But the third person alone, he couldn't guess it.